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aid to U.S.S.R.

...were placed at the disposal of an Allied commission. The Bolsheviks replied in derisory terms on May 13, since the conditions would have meant de facto Allied control of Russia. (In 1921 the American relief commission nonetheless began distribution of food that saved countless Russians from starvation.)

...suffered from severe malnutrition. The hungry resorted to eating grass and, occasionally, to cannibalism. The losses would have been still more disastrous were it not for assistance provided by the
American Relief Administration, headed by the future U.S. president Herbert Hoover, which, with moneys from the U.S. Congress and voluntary contributions, fed most of the starving. Even so, the human...

role of Hoover

...Recognized by war’s end as the “Great Engineer” who could organize resources and personnel to accomplish extraordinary acts of benevolence, Hoover was the natural choice to head the
American Relief Administration. The ARA sent shiploads of food and other life-sustaining supplies to war-ravaged Europe—including Germany and Bolshevik Russia during the famine in that country...